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Assessing Information Literacy: Creating Generic Indicators and Target Group-Specific Questionnaires

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Information Literacy. Lifelong Learning and Digital Citizenship in the 21st Century (ECIL 2014)

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Information literacy is defined as the capacity to identify, locate, evaluate, use, create, store and index information. This article deals with the assessment of information literacy. Therefore a list of skills an information literate person should possess in the 21st century was developed. Based on these indicators, multiple-choice tests were developed which focus on the target groups of pupils, university students, teachers and researchers. With these tests it is possible to assess the knowledge in terms of information literacy.

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  1. Department of Information Science, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Universitätsstraße 1, 40204, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Lisa Beutelspacher

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  1. Department of Information Management, Faculty of Letters, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

    Serap Kurbanoğlu

  2. Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

  3. University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Esther Grassian

  4. University of California Los Angeles, USA

    Diane Mizrachi

  5. University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, UK

    Ralph Catts

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Beutelspacher, L. (2014). Assessing Information Literacy: Creating Generic Indicators and Target Group-Specific Questionnaires. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., Špiranec, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Catts, R. (eds) Information Literacy. Lifelong Learning and Digital Citizenship in the 21st Century. ECIL 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 492. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14136-7_55

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